ART / Individual Artists / Essays

Current paper · Semantic Scholar

Relevance. The article explores how the question of individual and collective identity shapes the reception of contemporary Ukrainian art in the global field. The purpose of this article is to analyze the work of Ukrainian female artists based on the problem of identification and identity, as well as the problematiza­tion of the possibility of “being Ukrainian” or “being from Ukraine” within the framework of the pos…

Reference · Wikidata

piece of writing often written from an author's personal point of view

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story. Essays have been sub-classified as formal and informal: formal essays are characterized by "serious purpose, dignity, logical organization, length," whereas the informal essay is characterized by "the personal element, hu…

Book · DOAB

Air Supplied doubles as an artbook and edited collection of critical essays on the work of Australian-based artist David Cross. Known for his practice with inflatable structures, his projects often draw audiences into unexpected situations and dialogues. Working across performance/participatory art and object-based environments, Cross has developed a unique body of work that focuses on relationships between pleasur…

Full text · Open Library

Image · DPLA

McMullen Museum of Art Publications The McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College publishes scholarly catalogues to accompany each of its exhibitions. Edited by the exhibitions’ curators, usually Boston College faculty members, the catalogues feature essays of original research by scholars from various disciplines and contain color images of each work in a given exhibition. On art and artifacts ranging in time and subj…